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Monday, 03 November 2025
Time Speaker Title Resources
09:30 to 11:00 Abigail Plummer (Boston University, USA) Elasticity basics - stress, strain, deformation gradient - lecture 1
11:30 to 13:00 Ajeet Kumar (IIT Delhi, India) Euler-Bernouli and Timoshenko beam theories
14:30 to 16:00 Vincent Demery (ESPCI Paris, France) Mechanics (Föppl-von Karman) ; Gauss's Theorema Egregium - lecture 1
16:30 to 17:00 Abigail Plummer (Boston University, USA) Tutorial
Tuesday, 04 November 2025
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09:30 to 11:00 Ajeet Kumar (IIT Delhi, India) Theory of special Cosserat rods - part 1
11:30 to 13:00 Vincent Demery (ESPCI Paris, France) Pattern formation, wrinkles - lecture 1
14:00 to 15:30 Hadrien Oliveri (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany) The hydromechanical basis of plant growth - lecture 1
15:30 to 17:00 Joel Marthelot (Aix-Marseille University, France) Morphing without Muscles: Hydraulic Actuation in nature
Wednesday, 05 November 2025
Time Speaker Title Resources
09:30 to 11:00 - Discussion
11:30 to 13:00 - Discussion
14:30 to 16:00 - Poster session
16:30 to 17:30 - Poster session
Thursday, 06 November 2025
Time Speaker Title Resources
09:30 to 11:00 Abigail Plummer (Boston University, USA) Discrete networks & polymer chains - lecture 2
11:30 to 13:00 Hadrien Oliveri (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany) Growth and hydromechanics of plant tissues - lecture 2
14:30 to 16:00 Vincent Demery (ESPCI Paris, France) TBA
16:30 to 17:30 Vincent Demery (ESPCI Paris, France) Tutorial
Friday, 07 November 2025
Time Speaker Title Resources
09:30 to 11:00 Ajeet Kumar (IIT Delhi, India) Theory of special Cosserat rods - part 2
11:30 to 13:00 Abigail Plummer (Boston University, USA) Polymer networks & swelling - lecture 3
14:30 to 16:00 Hadrien Oliveri (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany) Growth and form of plant shoots - lecture 3
Monday, 10 November 2025
Time Speaker Title Resources
09:30 to 11:00 Anil Hirani (University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, USA) Introduction to Discrete Exterior Calculus (DEC) - lecture 1
11:30 to 13:00 Marta Lewicka (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Calculus of variations for the nonlinear elastic prestressed films - lecture 1
14:30 to 16:00 Efi Efrati (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) Shaping by metric prescription vs configuration prescription
Tuesday, 11 November 2025
Time Speaker Title Resources
09:30 to 11:00 Efi Efrati (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) Intrinsic approach to frustrated systems.
11:30 to 13:00 Anil Hirani (University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, USA) Metric and other operators in DEC - lecture 2
14:30 to 16:00 Marta Lewicka (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Calculus of variations for the nonlinear elastic prestressed films - lecture 2
16:30 to 17:00 Anil Hirani (University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, USA) Tutorial: PyDEC tutorial
Wednesday, 12 November 2025
Time Speaker Title Resources
09:30 to 11:00 Efi Efrati (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) Fundamental modes of frustration in the natural world
11:30 to 13:00 Vijaykumar Krishnamurthy (ICTS - TIFR, Bengaluru, India) Morphogenetic patterns - lecture 1
14:30 to 16:00 Anil Hirani (University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, USA) Vector bundle valued DEC and elasticity - lecture 3
16:30 to 17:30 Marta Lewicka (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Tutorial
17:30 to 18:30 - Poster session
Thursday, 13 November 2025
Time Speaker Title Resources
09:30 to 11:00 Marta Lewicka (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Calculus of variations for the nonlinear elastic prestressed films - lecture 3
14:30 to 16:00 Vijaykumar Krishnamurthy (ICTS - TIFR, Bengaluru, India) Morphogenetic patterns - lecture 1